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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Monsanto Ordered to Pay $93 Million to Small Town for Poisoning Citizens

Dioxin happens to be the Royal Road to liver cancer. I actually know two victims of agent orange and both contracted terminal liver cancer. Their escape is foundational to understanding how to cure cancer and a number of other serious ailments. What is more loathsome is how a corporate culture have arisen to exploit these diseases and toxins without ever actually working at curing them

Right now readers of this blog have solutions to all these insults to human health. It is challenging and takes active participation on the part of the patient but it is clearly doable. Yet our whole medical profession is economically trapped by our own hum,an nature and this parasitic economic model.

So it is quite nice to see at least some folks taking a nip out of Monsanto in particular.

Monsanto Ordered to Pay $93 Million to Small Town for Poisoning Citizens

Big wins can happen in small places. The West Virginia State Supreme
Court finalized a big blow to the biotech giant Monsanto this month,
finishing a settlement causing Monsanto to pay $93 million to the tiny
town of Nitro, West Virginia for poisoning citizens with Agent Orange
chemicals.

The settlement was approved last year, but details were worked out only weeks ago as to how the funds were to be spent.

$9 million will be spent to clean dioxin contaminated dust from 4500 homes.

$21 million will be spent to test to see if people have been poisoned with dioxin.

Citizens will be monitored for such poisoning for 30 years, not just a few months.

An additional $63 million is to be allotted if additional tests for dioxin contamination testing is necessary.

Anyone who lived in the Nitro area between Jan. 1, 1948, and Sept.
3, 2010 will be tested for dioxin. Although they must show proof they
lived in the area, they will be eligible for testing even if they no
longer live in Nitro.

Former or present employees of Monsanto are not eligible for any of these benefits.

An office will be set up to organize testing for Nitro citizens. The
registration of participants is to be overlooked by Charleston attorney
Thomas Flaherty, who was appointed by the court.

Residents have a right to file individual suits against Monsanto if medical tests show they suffered physical harm due to dioxin exposure.

Monsanto Produced Toxic Chemicals in Nitro

Just how were Nitro citizens exposed to dioxin? Monsanto was
producing the toxic herbicide Agent Orange in Nitro, and dioxin is a
chemical byproduct of the substance. It is known to cause serious health conditions.
The factory which produced Agent Orange was opened in Nitro in 1948 and
remained in operation until 2004, even though usage of this herbicide
in the past (in Vietnam and other Asian countries) was fatal to millions
of citizens and the war veterans who were exposed to it.

“There is no doubt that during and after the war, many Vietnamese absorbed this very toxic
material [dioxin]. It is our belief from toxicological research and
epidemiological studies from many countries that this dioxin probably
resulted in significant health effects in Vietnam.” – Arnold Schecter and John Constable

“It’s been a real long haul,” attorney Stuart Calwell told The Charleston Gazette. Calwell represented Nitro area residents in a class action suit that prompted Monsanto to make the settlement.

“The politics of dioxin has been bitterly debated
since the Vietnam War, but … we know that there is a health issue there
and hopefully people will get their houses cleaned and the risk will
come to an end and those exposed in the past will have the benefit of
keeping an eye on their health.”

The people of Nitro still need to fill out a register to receive the
benefits outlined in the settlement. Due to the pivotal nature of this
landmark settlement, Nitro citizens need to participate as fully as
possible to set a precedent for other class action suits that farmers
and consumers of GMO foods
around the world might wage against Monsanto in the future to finally
take them down. If enough of us do it at once, then even their bloated
coffers will finally be depleted, and we can enjoy a world without being
poisoned to death.

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